Gender-Specific Genetic Algorithms*
Tammy Drezner, Zvi Drezner · INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research · 2006
In this paper we propose to incorporate gender in genetic algorithms. Existing genetic algorithms are gender-neutral. Every genetic algorithm which is gender-neutral can be easily constructed as a gender-specific genetic algorithm. We compared the performance of the gender-neutral and its gender-specific counterpart on four optimization problems and the gender-specific algorithm exhibited superior performance. A statistical analysis allows this conclusion to be stated with 99,5% confidence,